Summary
Peter Nelson is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years’ experience building production-grade systems for autonomous vehicles and cloud platforms, currently leading development of Caesium, Oxbotica’s fleet management and real‑time telemetry platform. With a DPhil from the University of Oxford in mobile robotics, he combines deep research expertise in mapping and localisation with hands-on systems engineering across firmware, sensor drivers, backend services, and web UIs (C/C++, Java/Kotlin, Python, JS). He has delivered end-to-end solutions spanning in-vehicle hardware integration, secure deployment pipelines, spatial databases, and data pipelines used in landmark trials including Heathrow’s airside autonomous vehicle deployment. Comfortable shifting between low-level device work and cloud-native architectures, he also brings practical field trial experience—safety driving, on-road debugging, and incident reporting—that tightens the loop between lab research and real-world operations. Notably, he built and now manages the full Caesium lifecycle team, blending technical leadership with product-focused delivery.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MCompSci, Computer Science, First Class, MCompSci, Computer Science, First Class at University of Oxford